Recording punch



Jan. 16, 1923.

A. J. WEBER ET AL.

RECORDING PUNCH.

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UNITED STATES ARTHUR J. WEBER AND CHARLES BUTTERFIELD, OF MIDDLE'IOWN, OHIO.

' RECORDING PUNCH.

Application filed February 21, 1921.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, ARTHUR J. WEBER and CHARLES BU'I'IERFIELD, citizens of the United States, residing in Middletown, in the county of Butler and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Recording Punches, of which the following is a specification, reference being had I therein to the accompanying drawing.

This invention relates to improvements in recording punches, having particular reference to devices of this character adapted for use b railway conductors for punching or marhin'g cash fare receipts, or the like,-the operation of the device resulting in marking the receipt .to the passenger with the amount of the cash fare paid, and in recording or indicating on the instrument the total or cumulative result of cash collections.

The object of the invention is to provide an effective check, b means of the recording punches, on cas fares, or other cash receipts and the like, whereby such transactions will be safeguarded against loss to the o crating company or principals, and where the employee acting in the capacity of con uctor or collector will be protected against unsupported claims for shorta e, and the ban of suspicion which, in the a sence of effective means for chcckin such transactions rests generally upon a1 employees engaged in the work, will be largely removed.

It is an object of the invention to provide an instrument of this character of simple construction, of convenient size, and easy and rapid of manipulation, upon which errors of registration cannot readily be made. and which will he incapable of fraudulent manipulation.

in the accompanying drawings, we have shown our invention in one form of preferred construction it being understood that the construction here shown is for the purpose of illustrating the principle or es sential features of the invention and that various modifications in the details of coir struction and arrangement illustrated may be made without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the drawings: I

Fig. l is a longitudinal, vertical sectional view of the improved punch taken on the line 1-1 of Fig. 2;

Serial No. 446,935.

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the punch with the upper portion of the casing removed;

Fig. 3 represents a cash fare receipt upon which a cash are has been recorded with the punch;

Figs. 4 and 5 are detail views of parts of the mechanism.

As shown in the drawings, the mechanism of the instrument is enclosed in a suitable casing 1 which serves also as a supporting frame for the different units thereof. One of the punch handles 2, as here shown,'is fixed to the casing, the opposite hand1e'3 being pivoted in the casing as at 4. A transverse slot 5, extends horizontally across the front of the casing whereby the cash receipts or the like upon which the detail marking is to be made may be inserted into the mechanism.

A totalizing register, or counter 6, is mounted in the upper portion of the front of the casing on a transverse shaft 7 the ends of which are supported in the opposite sides of casing 1,an aperture S'being provided in the top of the casing whereby the registrations of the counter may be conveniently read.

Also supported in the upper portion of the casing, rearwardly of counter 6, on a transverse shaft 9, is a setting or index register 10, and in the central and lower portions, respectively, of the front of the casing, adjacent the slot 5, and supported on transverse shafts U and 12, are the marking registers 13 and 14, either one of which may have depressed figures 0 to 9 formed in the periphery of each of its discs,-the other re ister having corresponding raised figures formed on the periphery of each disc, so that the two registers will function one with the other to impress an item of registration set up thereon on a cash receipt inserted therebetwcen through the slot 5. Each disc of the register 14 is supported independently of the other discs on a bar 42 pivoted on a common transverse shaft 43 and having its free end 4-4 adapted to be engaged by a pivot bar 39 for a purpose which will presently be described.

Each of the number discs of the index register 10 is provided with a gear 15 which projects through the upper casing sufiiciently to afford a convenient means for manipulating the discs manually to setup the item thereon to be marked on the cash receipt by the register 1.3 14 and recorded ill) -11 the total register 6 Each (Gill 1)" medic? willi'z; Q'enrl'i ni|i1r||m| on a! llilll" \vrw shalt l and llZiYlllf; i'wlnriwn ginn- IT sel'nii'il (hereto. (oopernlin'; willi izn'li \Yllil'll is slidnlily supported on gliiilr 2 pinned lo lhe lowor hnn dli- $1 zuljnre nl 1h lnlrrnm l.a iuwl Qlhening AlOlillIIll' 2'2 serving to hold egich rack 19 in the position to vliieh it udjns tec l by ll'lilllllHIlHillll] ol' the corresponding disc of the index 11 isler lll."

Handle 23. as here shown. is provided. 1H- side the cz s ing 1 and reznw irillr ol the pilot e'enter 4. with ii phiraliQ' ol' \erlirzil hlilC li q tfi to each of which is piroiedj as a; 214. n lever fi hnring n rerli ci il projeo ti n QG z ig lzipggd in don t-net with nmio end ol" 0ne 0' :tle1' eks l9, and a seginje'nl' fq i'gi gd its: Tree gr d iheehing with an ilp1 d elge gear 28, suppprted on tra nsve'a 1 2? Wi a. mew wi h e 1* iyely of one of the .i is o! an 3 r lled earl; of (he rnu r lgingregi $ters 13 and 1-1. that? being a'levee 25"ancl segnienl 27 for ezi ch of the discs of the index register 1d the le ve rsnormally being; held in their peufmal relation against n triinverhe shaft 32 fixed in the opposite walls of (using 1 by spring ,(uo egal ing with earth ol' (he number diees i'ii linden reg ig t er 1.0 is 1i xeptii-nll 'b gii-' 3"1 ai=;nfg tooth Ill. l'o rnn-d a t n5 n gger-end z ql z a p ted to ifegisler with :1 notch or depression 35 formed ll l the holly of the gliec th I b g s heing supported on ii trg nsgerge ehgfi 35 eiz qending through clearnge s l qts and having su table spring conneqtipns to normgilly hold 'the snrne in -nisegl relation with the teeth 34 in engagelne nt wjlili noirlies 35. The lower l'ree ends 33 of b a r s 33 are adapted to he moved. upon n n nipillatio n of the meeting disrs ol' the regiter lll; into engagement, with pivot. lHLl'H 1 39 supported on the upturned ends 4U ol' epitensidns 41 of handle 3. the'extensions 4 1 being equal in nnniber'to the segnient levers 25. 'hen all the disus of the index row lfilk l :ire at zero position. the hairs 23 w ill in in norrngl relnlio i with lL'Ll fiJ engaging the notches 35 of the hses and the lowe ends of the hine out of engagement 1th bars 39. and the ends -9 of ha'iz 3.! shown in Fig. 1 will as lieu of the ends pl of'lQYQlS 42.

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The index register l0 is manually ipen :ihle hr inezins ol'llhe pioJeeiIlnE:gears 1 b (IHli oi the number disrs hein g' ind pendent-Ly operable. to set up the item to he registered. llhns, for illustration. lo set up lhe ilein 1725 to he marked on lhe ('nsh lk'tillil gind added on the cumulative register. he nnils 'dis'i, 10 as here. shown will he sell Ill :1 the tens disc at 2, and the hundreds: disr ill L-ihns the corresponding rill-ks 1 will he moved downwardly to like extent. il llll the hiir'illj of'eziehdisc willhe moved in eo engagement with the eorreepon'din e piyoi' bar Fl-land rinse the. ends 39 thereof enliieie n ily as" indirn ted by dotted lines in Figfil'fto 'engai e the' end 44 '01: lever 12 when handle Sis auti atedf Upon aeti'lation rilll'i l'i'nriflle the pioje'c'iiion 26 of'the coriemmieg e g ei eve will into 'n z genienft vlth'phe lower end of rack 19 ofi nnifijsclisc l0", end in like manner. u po'n fu iplier'hc ti la tiq'n of handle 3, the ni z'nt levers cooperatingwith "the lens and h'i nctlreicls" discs will be moi 'ed succesively into'engaigeinenfi with the corresponding rzi'c lis 13 'Thus' the segment leyer's will 'he. variably actuated inzeor'ding' to the isetting Ullhe, index i is tei'; the movement of each lever heiiiitrnnmittd through gears 2 to the corresponding diszs of the innrl iing' re' isterg '13 :inil HQzlnd through the 'disr of r'e' i is'ter 1.3 to the 'diin'iuln tiVe're isfei' 3 lily in'e n ih of inlerinediale g n-s -10 which lire iiion'nted on '11 trzi isi erse" Shlift deny poi'ted iil'lhe casing L'." Thus, in the r-use of the illu hra tiqni the item 1.25 gel 111) {n tlhi iridei; 1O lvilliilspfbe set up on the n'nii'lting fe isters l3 a11il 14 and will bl, :iddedlo tli'e sni'n of the items on the cunnihr tire re isfiei G as well n heing recorded on the rush hire reeei iliinserbed in slol 5 el veeiinmrlting registers 1;, and l4.

The i-l'liiiiilulire register n'ui'y he of :in snilnhh constrnrtion oi common prin'liire inrhnling lhe nnzil means 'for transferring one unit 'of registration from one disc to the next of higher order in efi' ecting additions on lhe register.

To provide for estoration of [he lnevlmmoi. in norninl wlLhonl zllll 'i llll (he lll li n zind HPPHll Hlg iill oiei' [he rah-hen in in lln o iiimilo llireilioni the ninnher 1llI\\H ln1ll; oiwlillvh in one (lllll'llHH only the, re islinlionri on the ronnter are rnninhiliua :i lolnl registration of the items set up on llH index register and recorded by the marking registers lieing ohtained.

\Vhen handle 3 is released the same will he lOll restored to normal position by action of spring 5U thereon.--in like manner the segment levers 25 will be restored to normal by action of spring 5i, and with the return movement of the segments the marking registers '13 and 1% will be reset at the Zero or normal position. Also with the return movement of the segments, near the end of the movement, pawls 21a re released by a knockout pin 20 secured in each of the bars 20, and sed'nients 19 being thus released, together with the discs of the index counter, are set at normal by action of retraction springs 52. The bars 42, together with the marking register 14, are set to normal position after each operation by action of springs 53.

As will be understood from the description of the recording or marking mechanism, only such of the discs of marking register 14 will be actuated for marking the receipt, as have been brought into operation by setting of the corresponding disc of the index register,thus no ciphers will appear as the last digit,of the item. Provision is made, however. for registering ciphers between digits by connecting the bars 33 one with another by pins 33' and slots 33 ,the free end of each pin projecting into the bottom of the slot in the adjacent bar of lower denomination. Thus when a disc is adjusted to set up an item on the register the bar 33 of the next higher order will not be aifected, but all the bars of lower denomination will be moved down sufiiciently by action of pins 33 to actuate the pivot bars 39, and thus to bring into the marking operation the corresponding discs of registers 14- which will re ister at the zero position.

it will be obvious, of course, from the de tailed description of construction and operation, that various modifications of the arrangement may be made by those skilled in the art without departing substantially from the principle and spirit of our invention. As far as we are aware our invention as it relates to the broad combination of the index register, the marking registers and the eumulative register with their interrelated iechanisin is new in this art. and we wish to consider the same broadly as defined and comprehended in the appended claims.

llaring described our invention. we claim t. In a recording punch. in combination with an actuating member thereof. an index register normally set at Zero and comprising a plurality of indepenrlrntlv operable numb r discs adapted to have variable amounts set.- up thereon. a marking register, means to place a. ticket to receive an impression from the marking register. and connections between the index register and the marking register. includin; a part coacting with each disc of the index register and variably operable according to the setting of the disc, whereby upon operation of said actuating member in one direction the marking register will be actuated to mark on a ticketso placed the item set-up on the index register, and upon actuation of said member in the opposite direction the index register will be set at zero.

2. In a recording punch, incombination with an actuating member thereof, an index register, a marklng register and a cumulative register, means for inserting a ticket in the punch relative to the marking register, and connections between said registers whereby upon actuation of said member in one direction an item set upon the index register will be recorded on said ticket by the marking register and added to the sum of items on the cumulative register, and upon actuation of said member in the opposite direction the index register and marking register will be set at normal.

3. In a recording punch, in combination with an actuating member thereof, an index register, a cumulative register and means to insert a ticket in said punch, and connections between said registers whereby upon actuation of said member in one direction to mark the ticket an item set up on the index register will be added to the sum of items on the cumulative register and upon actuation of said member in the opposite direction the index register will be set at normal.

4. In a recording punch, in combination with an actuating member thereof, an index register and a. cumulative register, and connections between said reglsters whereby upon actuation of said member in one direction an item set up on the index register will be added to the sum of items on the cumulative register and upon actuation of said member in the opposite direction the index register will be set at normal.

5. In a recording punch. in combination with an actuating member thereof, an index register comprising a plurality of number discs each adapted to be set independently to indicate an item to be registered. a mark ing register synchronized with the index register and comprising two opposite registers spaced apart to receive a. ticket therc ARTHUR J. WEBER. CHARLES BUTTERFIELD. 

